A modern AI browser
A modern AI browser
Posted Dec 17, 2025 7:44 UTC (Wed) by rrolls (subscriber, #151126)In reply to: A modern AI browser by denials
Parent article: Mozilla gets a new CEO: Anthony Enzor-DeMeo
- DuckDuckGo's Search Assist is useful more often than not, if I'm just quickly checking something.
- I use ChatGPT (on a free account) on an irregular basis - maybe once a month - mainly to look up something of the nature where a search engine would work if only I knew what to search for. For example, "there's this movie where XYZ happens, what was it called?" - and a more recent example, where it surprised me how well it performed - "here's a popular recreational maths problem, but can you find me papers about a specific very slightly different but related problem?" - I'd _never_ have figured that one out on my own. It's also useful when you want to do initial research on a programming language or library that you have zero experience with and want a starting point.
- I've used a local text AI as a rubber duck debugger a few times.
- Translation services, for _reading_, are invaluable, especially if they can be done locally (thus privately). I think Firefox is adding some kind of local translation AI - this is one of the few browser AI features I'd probably keep enabled.
Of course I'm still opposed (and I think most people are) to using AI for publishing (e.g. use AI to translate something if you're the only one that's going to read it; but don't publish something you ran through an AI translator, instead just let the reader run _their_ AI, on your handwritten work, into their preferred language if they wish). But these are some places where AI is genuinely helpful, so as much as I will ride the anti-AI bandwagon in general, I wouldn't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
